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August 10th 2005 - Classical Madrugada and news about "Ivory Town"
Dagbladet today writes that Madrugada's concert at Nordland Musikkfestuke in Bodø, Norway tonight will see the band featuring 20 extra members on stage. The festival asked Erlend Skomsvoll to arrange some some of Madrugada's most well-known songs for classical instruments, and the concert will see Madrugada perform with 11 members of Bodø Sinfonietta and some other classical musicians.
Eight songs have been arranged for orchestra, four old and four new, including "Majesty." But the band says that some of the extra members will stay on stage for the entirety of the concert, and that it will be "Madrugada like you have never seen us before."
Madrugada have been in Bodø since Sunday, and Frode says most of the days have been spent rehearsing, as "this is pretty complicated stuff," and that it is not just rock plus orchestra in a traditional for like many have done before them. He calls the project "incredibly challenging and ambitious, and definitely something very special."
It is also revealed that this project is an important test for the forthcoming concept-album "Ivory Town," with some interesting news about the album. It is scheduled for release in about a year, and 20 songs are ready to be recorded, out of which seven or eight are definitely going to be on the album. Frode and Sivert call the album a side-project, a "Madrugada 4 1/2," but that it could end up as their best album ever. And that the band's hardcore-fans will love it, that they are making it for them - and for themselves.
Sivert says the sound of the music for the new album is typical Madrugada, but dramatic, almost theatrical. Frode explains that with "Ivory Town" they will manage what they always aim for but never manage, to create just one mood. He says the songs are sung crooner-like, that they have a lot of blues, and twangy country-guitars.
When it comes to the songs that are being prepared for the album, some old gems can be expected. Some of them have been played live every now and then, and the band have been tempted to put some of them on the previous records already, but they have managed to save them for this album. They say "the fans think they are forgotten classics."
The reason for the news about the new album being unveiled at the same time as the project at Nordland Musikkfestuke is that Erlend Skomsvoll might also be asked to arranged the music on the new album. And when the "Ivory Town" project is going on the road after the album release, the band says they dream about doing maybe just 20 concerts in the biggest Norwegian cities, and playing in places like theatres, partly with an orchestra in support.
When it comes to the title-track of the album, the brilliant "Ivory Town," they say it is the first song they recorded for the album. They made it at their rehearsal space right before "Industrial Silence" was released, and that the textual concept of the song and the record is life in a typical small Norwegian city.
Klingt alles sehr cool!
Das Konzert wurde übrigens aufgenommen und wird vielleicht als Live-Album oder zumindest als EP erscheinen!
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2005/08/10/439802.html